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Not Yet a Man
Nell lamented
The boy
Who was not yet a man
The day he was sent
To fight
Nathaniel was at the
Ripe age of
Seventeen
He had said goodbye
To his mother
His father
His brother
But he mostly said goodbye
To Nell
Nell was
Beautiful
And nice
With milky skin,
Ocean eyes,
And hair that curled around
The middle of
Her back
Nathaniel was
Young
Not yet a
Man
When he
Died in the war
At age eighteen
It was the 1930s
Nathaniel grew up
In a small town
Near Pittsburg
He was the perfect
Boy;
Blonde hair
Green eyes
Freckles across the bridge
Of his
Nose
A loving father
A kind mother
A brother who meant well,
Not even those closest
Could save him
From the war
Of the 1940s
The Second World War
More had
Died
More didn't return
Home
He had courted Nell
For a very short period,
Until he was drafted
On the warm
June day
He held her
Delicate hand
As he told her
The news
She wept
He wept
A pool of tears
He promised he’d come
Back
He never did
The battle field was bloody
Nathaniel watched
In stunned silence
As his friends
Were incinerated
In the flames
Of war
He thought of Nell
His sweet
Innocent
Nell
He held
His gun
Ready to shoot
At the charging German
Soldiers
He kissed
The tip
Of his well
Stocked weapon
And fired away
At the
Young German
Boy
Of a similar
Age
But from behind him
Came the
Deafening
Shot
Through his back
And through
His Heart
A cry of pain
A quick
Doubling over
And Nathaniel
Left
Nell grieved
Mourned
Wept
Cried
But even these
Verbs, would not
Bring him
Back
And so
Life went on
Nell
Married,
Carried,
And went along
With the
Flow
Inside
The nightstand
Nell kept
The sweet
Photograph
Of her
Long
Lost
Nathaniel
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